County clipboard: Another accolade for Fales

For the second time this fall, quarterback David Fales was named the Manning Star of the Week for the San Jose State football team.

The award is given weekly to eight quarterbacks for their efforts from the previous week in the NCAA.

Fales, who broke the Spartans' single-season school records for passing yards and touchdowns two weeks ago, has thrown for 3,798 yards and 31 touchdown passes.

Both records he broke were held by players in the San Jose State Hall of Fame. Fales is third in the NCAA in passing efficiency, guiding the Spartans to 10 wins and the Dec. 27 Military Bowl in Washington, D.C.

Fales, who led Palma to a league title in 2008, and Monterey Peninsula College to a conference title in 2011, also set a San Jose State school record for pass completions.

The 6-foot-3 junior spent a redshirt freshman season at the University of Nevada, when Colin Kaepernick was the starting quarterback.

One NFL draft board has him ranked as the ninth best quarterback in the NCAA.

Honor for Bonano

John Bonano has been named the Pac -12 Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the University of Arizona.

Bonano, a Palma product, is majoring in physiology and has a 3.93 grade point average.

Bonano set a school record with 74 straight extra points. He's 14-of-20 in field goal attempts this fall with a best of 46 yards. He has also sent 37 kickoffs into the end zone for touchbacks.

Bonano has scored 93 points for the Wildcats this fall.

Gymnastic gems

Linn Daskam and Annalisa Simmonich were state champions at the Level 4 State Gymnastic championships in San Mateo.

Members of the Rising Star Gymnastics Training Center, Daskam won the Level 4 vault state title (9.30) and beam competition (9.45), finishing with the second highest all-around score.

Simmonich won the Senior C vault state title with a score of 9.30. She finished third in the all-around after placing in four events.

Teammate Laci Falconer was second in the Junior G vault, third in the floor and fifth in the team, while Julianne Eitoku was third in the vault and beam in the Senior H division, placing sixth in the all-around.

Annamarie Eitoku compiled the sixth highest point total in the Child A competition after finishing fourth in the beam and fifth in the vault while Logan Falkel was third in the beam and fourth in the vault.

A pair of fifth place finishes in the beam and floor exercise at the Level 5 state finals propelled Candace Wong to a sixth in the all-around competition.

Lacrosse standout

George Porter completed his career at Sonoma State as the Most Valuable Defensive Player of the Year, earning Western Collegiate Lacrosse League Division I second team long stick midfielder honors.

Porter, a 2008 Carmel High graduate, was a three-year captain at Sonoma State.

Conditioning program

The 15th annual boys baseball and girls softball workout/conditioning program will be conducted by the Monterey Bay Sports Program.

This program is free to all seventh- to 12th-grade athletes and is conducted by Monterey High baseball and Monterey Bay Rippers baseball/softball coach Greg Omoto.